Expressing Opinions

Another year has passed and another year to look forward to with hope of better days. Don’t get me wrong I did not have a bad year, but I always hope to make each year better than the last. I guess that is the optimist in me, as my glass is always half full.

We have 11 months to go before the presidential election and I am already tiring of the rhetoric. The democrats talk of experience and change, while the Republicans seem to focus on religion. One thing both parties and their candidates have in common is each candidate is claiming to be the best qualified to run this country and be president. The other shared trait is money. BIG money. Seems like the news media is focusing more on the money the candidates have raised and how much they are spending, than on the issues. When the final vote is cast and a new president is named, who and how much is the new president going to owe for winning the election? How will the new president pay back those contributors for all the millions of dollars, which were contributed to the coffers?

With the exception of John McCain, I have heard very little from the candidates about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I want to know what is their plan or do they they even have one? So far the current war plan has cost America the lives of 474 soldiers in Afghanistan and 3902 in Iraq. In 2007, 116 soldiers died in Afghanistan and another 899 died in Iraq.

What kind of a year do you think the 1,015 families of the fallen soldiers had in 2007? America is trading our most valuable resource, our young men and women for oil. Is it worth those 1,015 lives so Americans can consume more oil than any other country in the world? Is it worth those 1,015 lives so oil companies can report record profits in the billions of dollars?

This is my first posting to this site and only few opinions I have. Stay tuned for more and thank you for visiting ExpressingOpinions.com